Berzerk Vid

[Eedee]

^ Child custody dispute. Fitting haha

[2PointOBoy]

New MySpace article on Syndrome directing Berzerk:

https://myspace.com/discover/trending/2 ... -syndrome/

Berzerk:

I got a call from Paul Rosenberg, Em's manager. He's like, “Em's ready for the visual. I want to play you this song and then just vibe on it.” They [Eminem’s team] work so crazy. They don't do anything digital. So I went to a Staples parking lot, and I had to sit shotgun in one of the A&R’s cars to listen to it. I wrote down a couple notes and left—it was like a drug deal or something. [Laughs]

The first thing I thought was, this is totally Beasties and old Def Jam. I was always a big Billy Squire fan, so it was rad. I heard the song, chopped it up with Paul and he’s like, here’s the deal: Em always has a base outline of what he wants to do. In this case, he’s like, “I [want] to be very specific to early ’90s hip-hop, but I don’t want it to be like Hype Williams shit. I want to go Beasties and more of that kind of indie style.”

The other thing they said was that Rick [Rubin] was going to be in the video, which freaked me out in the coolest possible way. I’m like, “Really? Fuck.” So then I was starting to think about “Going Back to Cali” and was like, “Let’s use Rick fucking 25 years later in the same scene.” We were trying to get LL [Cool J], but he was in L.A. and we shot in Queens.

This was a Sunday, and we had to shoot that Thursday. We built the boom box in 48 hours. It was crazy. And that scale, with the riser and the handle, it’s 20 by 20 feet, so I mean, it was massive, and it totally functions. It doesn’t play but the tape deck opens, buttons work and you see a little LED equalizer.

It was nerve-wracking, because [we] had Paul and Em walked out on set and not liked it, we would have been screwed. But fortunately they saw it and were like, “Oh, that's great.”

Also, some details on the crew here: http://www.videostatic.com/watch-it/201 ... ndrome-dir

[ringoffirejrc]

Hands down my favorite Eminem video in years. Probably since TES era. I just love the whole concept, and the blond hair of course.

[2PointOBoy]

Clean version of music video now up on EminemVEVO:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQkpv3XkOsA

[VintageSlimBish]

Oh man, it would have been much better if LL was on it

That's one of Em's biggest influences, why would he out him on the worst song of his album? Still he might be on his album

[2PointOBoy]

The Berzerk video was shot just after Em's G-Shock performance, starting on the 8th of August (Thursday) in the same city - New York and on the 9th in Detroit.

Syndrome's James Larese told MySpace that he heard the song on a Sunday and shot on the next Thurday and told Mlive.com that it was shot over two days..

The first clue is the time data on the Rubin x Em back to back high-res pic posted on RapRadar.com which says Aug. 8 and the second one I just found is these posts by this chick Joanna Simkin tagged by Syndrome's crew member on Instagram:

"I did one thing on set today. But it was the coolest thing anyone has ever gotten to do on set. But I can't tell you what it was. So bye." - early 9 Aug on Twitter

"Remember when I tweeted I did something really cool but I couldn't say what? It may have happened on this set. #pbt" - 26 August on IG

Also, "Remind me to tell you guys about the time I got to blow-dry Rick Rubin's hair. #MaleGroomingMomentByMoi #WaitTillYouSeeThisOne" - 7 September



Also, unseen BTS pic from the crew member:

http://instagram.com/p/eDisV3PK6q

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Then, there's also this and this and this:

http://instagram.com/p/c4dNbmP0k4

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[Francesco]

It's been doing great on YouTube indeed... I watch it a few times a day myself... I barely watch Survival these days but Berzerk is my fave one right now.

[EriCartman]

Still sounds fresh as fuck

[yoda you can call me]

this isn't got corny for me, like all his other lead off singles has. must of watched and listened to this, well over 100 times now. not as much lately but when i do, i still like it. best lead off single in a long while

[yoda you can call me]

this hasn't got corny for me, like all his other lead off singles has. must of watched and listened to this, well over 100 times now. not as much lately but when i do, i still like it. best lead off single in a long while